Don't Be A Fool, Come To School

The definition of feedback is "the transmission of evaluative or corrective information about an action, event, or process to the original or controlling source". It may be a little complicated to apply this definition to a teaching environment. To simplify, feedback is the way we tell students how they are doing. It is hard to know what our students are going through, we can't read minds. So we have to be extra careful with what we say but, more important, how we say it. Our words have power, they can do harm as well as create enormous satisfaction. We can create confidence but also destroy it. Children and teenagers will remember forever if something we said was good or bad. It's of vital importance to know how, when, and the kind of words we should use when we refer to the classroom. I remember struggling a lot to pass a subject, and when I got a 7 the teacher told me (in an awful tone): "Well, don't be so happy, it's just a poor 7". That mar